NASALight the Candle (10/23/2008)
Astronaut Alan Shepard is hurled into space atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. Image Credit: NASA
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Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1203.html
Date: 10/23/2008
Year: 2008
Rights: Public Domain
What: Mercury
What: Apollo 14
What: Moon
Identifier: 284663main_Shepard_Launch_full
Addeddate: 2009-12-02 00:05:16
Publicdate: 2009-12-02 00:07:24
Keywords: Who -- Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; What -- Mercury; What -- Apollo 14; What -- Moon
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